Month: September 2024

XP Health grabs $32M to bring employees more affordable vision care

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Antonio Moraes, the grandson of a late prominent Brazilian billionaire, was never interested in joining the family-owned conglomerate of construction companies and a bank. Shortly after graduating from college, he founded one of Brazil’s first impact funds, which invested primarily in companies that made healthcare more accessible and affordable. But while attending Stanford University, where … Read more

The entire staff of beloved game publisher Annapurna Interactive has reportedly resigned

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Stray, a game where you play a cat. | Image: Annapurna Annapurna Interactive, the game company famous for publishing indie hits like Stray, Outer Wilds, Gorogoa, Neon White, What Remains of Edith Finch, and many more, may not be the same company anymore. Bloomberg reports that the entire staff of Annapurna Interactive, the gaming division … Read more

Google tests desktop windowing for Android tablets

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Image: Google Google is testing a new feature for Android tablets that will let you resize apps freely and arrange them on your screen at will, making it easier to juggle multiple tasks. The “desktop windowing” feature is now available as a developer preview, and for apps that support it, you could even have more … Read more

Build a RAG-based QnA application using Llama3 models from SageMaker JumpStart

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Organizations generate vast amounts of data that is proprietary to them, and it’s critical to get insights out of the data for better business outcomes. Generative AI and foundation models (FMs) play an important role in creating applications using an organization’s data that improve customer experiences and employee productivity. The FMs are typically pretrained on … Read more

Best prompting practices for using Meta Llama 3 with Amazon SageMaker JumpStart

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Llama 3, Meta’s latest large language model (LLM), has taken the artificial intelligence (AI) world by storm with its impressive capabilities. As developers and businesses explore the potential of this powerful model, crafting effective prompts is key to unlocking its full potential. In this post, we dive into the best practices and techniques for prompting … Read more

ngx-fastboot: How to Increase Angular Velocity at Bootstrap

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The world of web development is constantly evolving, along with the techniques and strategies for optimizing the performance of our applications. One of the most common challenges Angular developers face is the initial loading time of their applications. As application size increases, it becomes increasingly important to find solutions that enhance performance and improve the … Read more

How to Onboard a New Technical Writer

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Well, at last, you are not alone in all of these endless tasks. Congratulations. Now, let’s see how to prepare for the new technical writer to join the team. In general, you would want to reduce the onboarding time and get a team member with the least effort. To do this, you can: Reuse as … Read more

Polaris Dawn astronauts perform historic private spacewalk while wearing SpaceX-made suits

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A crew of four private astronauts made history in the early hours of Thursday when they opened the hatch of their SpaceX Dragon capsule and conducted the first commercial spacewalk.  The spacewalk, the riskiest part of the five-day Polaris Dawn mission, kicked off at 6:12 a.m. ET when oxygen started flowing into the astronauts’ spacesuits. … Read more

Meta, Snap, and TikTok partner to stop the spread of suicide and self-harm content

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Illustration by Nick Barclay / The Verge Meta, Snap, and TikTok have founded a new program called Thrive to help stop the spread of graphic content depicting or encouraging self-harm and suicide. Thrive enables participating companies to share “signals” to alert each other of violating content on their platforms. Thrive is built in conjunction with … Read more

It will cost you over $1,100 to replace the screen on Huawei’s tri-fold phone

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You’ll want to be extra careful with Huawei’s new tri-fold Mate XT Ultimate Design smartphone. | Image: Huawei Huawei has revealed the cost of replacement parts for the world’s first dual-hinged, triple-screen folding phone, and it’s another round of sticker shock. The Mate XT Ultimate Design itself starts at around $2,809, but should you damage … Read more